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Comments on: A Puzzlement https://whynow.dumka.us/2017/04/12/a-puzzlement-3/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sat, 15 Apr 2017 03:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2017/04/12/a-puzzlement-3/comment-page-1/#comment-85118 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:15:26 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=39009#comment-85118 After more research – the union representing United Airlines pilots wants the world to know that there were no United Airlines employees involved in this mess. The aircraft and crews belong to Republic Airlines operating as United Express under contract with United Airlines – making two points 1) United employees don’t do this shit & 2) This is what happens when you outsource.

Republic Airlines also operates as Delta Connection for Delta Airlines and American Eagle for American Airlines, so they are damn hard to avoid.

I also notices that other people who are into passengers’ rights followed the course I did questioning why these people were on board, and many are saying that the rules for overbooking all talk about being refused boarding, not being removed from the aircraft. Even in that case they violated the rules that require a written version of your rights.

As for the supporters of the actions of the airport police – they didn’t put the officer who slammed the Doctor’s face into the armrest on administrative leave almost immediately because he did a good job and followed procedure.The airline is also in trouble for not cleaning up the blood until after the doctor was removed the final time. He’s a doctor, he could have almost anything in his bloodstream. This belongs before a jury of our peers to decide how many aircraft the doctor now owns….

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2017/04/12/a-puzzlement-3/comment-page-1/#comment-85107 Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:50:55 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=39009#comment-85107 What’s especially annoying are the people who said that the airline and the airport police did nothing wrong because “the man raised his voice and was non-compliant”. Since when is knocking a man’s teeth out, smashing his nose and fracturing an eye orbital, and causing a traumatic brain injury an appropriate thing to do to any 69 year old man who isn’t waving around a gun or a knife, regardless of how impolitely he speaks? The fact that the airline and police actually have defenders for this brutality just reminds me of how brutal we have become as a nation, where brutalizing both our own citizens and people overseas is seen as normal and acceptable behavior.

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